Chinese team Wings Up has been removed from the Wuxi Villa Cup 2 tournament and given a six-month ban due to a suspicious match against After on Thursday. Tournament organizers claim that Wings Up did not want to win the match because a loss would have allowed them to avoid facing Let's Quit in the playoffs.
In this way, the team hoped to avoid a conflict of interest: one of the Let’s Quit players Kuanqing “qz” Wu is one of the owners of Wings Up and is the older brother of Hui “DD,” who performs there. Woo. The tournament organizers announced that they consider this behavior unacceptable and are depriving the Wings Up team of the right to participate in other events held by Wuxi HeJu Cultural Media for six months. Questionable behavior by Wings Up players was captured on several videos, including some moments of the match where they ignored an opponent in their field of vision or made obvious mistakes.
In addition, representatives of the HLTV portal announced that they would stop covering this tournament because it does not meet the requirements for professional competitions. Several years ago, HLTV already suspended coverage of Asian tournaments, with the exception of World Cup qualifiers, due to frequent suspicions of match-fixing. Part of the problem is that Asian organizers insist on using a round-robin system, which leaves more room for abuse than a group selection scheme.
